Holocaust denier to get out of prison
From Times Wire Reports
British author David Irving, imprisoned for 13 months on charges of denying the Holocaust, will be released to serve the rest of his three-year sentence on probation, and the government prepared to deport him.
A Vienna court granted an appeal filed by Irving, said Anton Sumerauer, a court spokesman.
Irving, 68, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment under a 1992 law that applies to “whoever denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse” the Holocaust.
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